ing to a large group which descril* Fort Worth, Tex., a hardshell Bap- I A
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ln the 8anie l,uni" r" usff>«y t h e q « - tist from the woods of K aufm an l U ' v C l f l I R U U l V t )
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11-.- county ..I visited
. .Î • .k the
.. city, and
1 upon
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• A 'cial
peculiar
By special a rra n g e m e n t w ith th e p u b ­
district.
An Essex lion is a calf; his return reported that they were lishers, we a re able to offer th e public
o • •
ing p ap er-b o u n d books at ten
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a r Field
l e l d l lane
a n e d duck
u
is a baked sheep’s m aking ice every dav up in Fort c th e e n ts follow
per copy, p o stp aid . O rder one ami
It is said
th a t in the sandy
des-
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head; Glasgow m agistrates or Nor- W orth. It was during Ju ly , and yon will lie su rp rised to find th is good
erts of A rabia w hirling winds some-
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n so cheap.
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folk
capons
are
capons
are red herrings; Irish the pilgrim w as at once brought be­ e L d ib itio
rary .
t.nies excavate pits 200 feet in
The White Company, by Conan Doyle.
depth, extending down to the j a l‘r,c“ G or M unster plunaa are po fore his church on • •Imr”“ «if Ivins»
/ , O* «he D eem ster, hy H ali Caine.
harder stratum on which the great
Gravesend sweetmeats are At the request of the accused, a A Romance of Two Worlds, by C orrelli.
shri tnps
com m ittee from the church was ap- .i,i’eab,‘lre Is lam l, by R obert Stevenson.
Led of sand rests.
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1 he Sign of th e Four, by Conan Doyle.
p o in te d to g o w ith him to F ort Kidnapped, by Roliert L. Stevenson.
I he Flag Salute.
The astronom ers have figured
W orth a n d v e rify h is s to r y . The 7J‘.e B<»“ ’h n a n . by Hall C aine.
Micah C larke, by A. Conan Doyle.
out a sort of continuous p e rfo rm -
commi,
te
returned
and
reported
Sport
Royal, by A nthony Hope.
Some
ar- th a t they were indeed m akine ice The Manió
ance this year in th e way of «clips-
, - ; tim e - ago
a - - we - copied
t — - a, »■-
1 lie Man in Blick,
Black, by
by St.
S tanley W eynian.
e-.
Two eclipses have already : tK e b “ul tbe American Sentinel
• .
Beyond tlie City, by A. Conan Dovle
incurred one of the moon on Jan u - rega rding a salute required of the I *‘V*'ry ‘ Hy 1,1 * ° r w orth> U 8,nP a Cncle T om ’s C abin, by Mrs. Stowe.
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nurnls in tho RnnlH r P l
i big steam engine for that purpose. JJ« b te r s Pronouncing D ictionary.
•try 7th, and one of th e sun on the i?1? , 1,1 the Boulder, Colo., pub-
.
Cosm opolis, by P au l B ourget.
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q ’ tx tt
m o r e e c l i o s e s o f t h e s u n b c s < ‘ l,O olR - Kefering to t hat arl icle ! thereupon a church m eeting was People’s Reference Book.
t
the Sentinel says in its last issu°: prom ptly called; and both
the Ar° u»‘d the World in Eighty Days,Verne
are sceduled J o r J u ly 18th andI “ The flag salute is „eith er local uor a n g in a l' offender and th e whole ^ , ^ ^ “ ‘ 1
%
H ±de„
December lo th ; also two more of accidental. T h e boulder Incident c o m m itte e w ere ¡g.m .uiniously ex- Xaoee. a K entucky K eH eJw G reene
M ark Twain, H is Life and W ork, hv
the moon, for J u ly 3d and Decent- ¡ ■« mt t
out" ' ’PP">8
» " ¡"- pt.||ed fr()1„ the ohurch for , ¡
Will M . C lem ens.
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¡ n fluence
u t nee m
o rk H11
n ro n a h r
•
- &
th a t It*
is a at t w
work
all t through
Tom
B row n'8 School Days, by H ughes.
the land. Since noticing th at, the
A H oliday in Bed, by ,1. M. Barrie.
A French in ventor converts grain news comes that the same salute is
By R ight, Not Law, by R. H. S h ep ard ,
lb«- C hild of th e Law, by De A larcon.
into dough at one operation w ith­ being practiced in the Iowa State
v?v
A ddress,
out milling. The grain is soaked, Normal School, where the young'
people ¡re trained in the a rt ofi
J O N E S ’ BOOK S T O R E ,’
and entering one end of the m a­ teaching, the design being that th e '
291 A l d e r S t .
PO RTLA N D , O R E .
chine is crushed and disintegrated, graduates ¡is they go out to teach j
the paste passing on to the knead­ introduce the salute in th eir schools, i
rsoooi
ing m achine a t the other end of the In Pennsylvania the same inflence
aparatus, where it is aerated and is at work, and experiences sim ilar If
to those in Boulder have occurred. 2 The only jo u rn al w hich presents f u lla c - « i
kneaded ¡..to (lough which can be Thog
fo re « „re g athering fo ran «5 counts o f the progress o f th e co lo n i-
zation m ovem ent along the lin e s o f
preserved indefinitely w ithout inju- attack upon the principle of relig-1 =5 co-operation
.
3;
’2 The o n ly jou rn al that g iv es full ezp la n a - 5»
ry. The n u tritiv e qualities of the >°us freedom in the public schools.” i ¡5
tio n o f all the various th eo ries for J»
«5
social im p rovem en t.
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grain, bran included, are kept
;S The o n ly jo u rn a l that offers free d isc u s- "•
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is a
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W V 1’’ t-'v-»
V-v?'
livrent '
¿boutjbtJ
Just for Fun.
The custom of christening a new
An E nglishm an and an Irish-!
vessel by breaking a bottle of wine
over its prow is o fo ld Saxon origin, m an, according to S hort Stories,
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and it certainly hears the im press Were WRikllig 111 th e su b u rb s o f'
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of its heathen birth. The Japanese D ublin one day, and halted for a
have a much more beautiful and few m inutes to view the suiround-
appropriate cerem ony. When the ing country. It so happened there
subjects of the .Mikado launch a had been an execution in the vicin­
new ship, they liberate a bird or ity th a t day, and the gibbet was
several birds from a cage swung still standing.
“ P a t,” said the E nglishm an,'
near the bowsprit. T he cage is so
constructed th a t * pulling o a string,
co | pointing — to it, . ‘‘where would you'
just as the vessel slides down the be now. if th at gibbet had its dues?’
“ Begorra,” replied Pat, “ I ’d be
ways, causes it to fali to pieces,and
the birds flutter m errily about the sth an d in ’ here alone.”
new ship, w hich, liberated from
Maud: “ M am m a, please answer
her land cradle, is to skim the me this one question.
W hat is a
waves like one of iiiem.
sp irit?”
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A Germ an inventor has made an
improvement in incandescent gas
burners which m ay prove of much
importance. The invention depends
««pon the fact th at when the press-
ure of the gas upon the incandes-
cent body from which the light is
derived is sufficiently increased th e
light becomes very intense, al-
though agreeable to the eye. Gas
’• 'Upplied. to the b u rner under a
['.i " lire of three-and-a-half atm os-
plmreB, and it is said th at a single
in< (iridescent jet of th e ordinary
size can lie m ade to em it a light
eOUal
than
1ÍW»
equal If)
to fHnf
th a t nF
of mnro
more th
an 1000
candles. The inventor claim s th a t
cost of this light is much less
*“ 1,1 t h at of the electric arc light.
M amma: ‘‘W hy. M aud, I ca n ’t
explain it to you; you would not
understand if I did.’
Maud: “ Oh, yes, I should.”
M am m a: “ Well, then, a spirit is
som ething you perceive but don’t
Hee- Now you don.t know nnv het-
ter tb an 5’ou did before.”
M aud: “ 'V es, I do. Its a skunk, n
A sm all schoolgirl in one of the
ru ral d istricts of Georgia was told
to write a composition on “ Temper-
ance.” She turned out the follow-
ing: “ Tem perance is more better
th an whisky. W hisky is ten cents
__ 1 1 lots
x_ of r ix
it
a _ drink and
it. My
pa
d rin k s whisky. He has been full
113 times. One night he came >
home late and ma went out and s
Those who have accepted the in-
consistent nam e of Welsh rabbit for
toasted cheese on the assum ption
that it is a corruption of Welsh
“ rarebit” , will have to revise th eir
view, x^ccording to a w riter in
M cM ill.n’8 M agasine, “ Welsh rab-
cut some hickories and walloped him
good. Then she ducked his head in
a tub of soapsuds and locked him
U N C L E S A M ’S
UP
^ ,e ^a rn * And the next
H O M IL IE S O N F IN A N C E .
m orning my pa said he reckoned
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th e Money SysUhn? A plan is told by C. ELTO N B L A N C H A R D
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